Islamiyat Yusuf Wins Bronze For Team Nigeria In Weightlifting
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Athlete Islamiyat Adebukola Yusuf has won Team Nigeria’s 4th medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, clinching Bronze in the Women’s 64kg Weightlifting event.
At the National Exhibition Centre, the 19-year-0ld Yusuf lifted a combined total of 212kg from both the Snatch, Clean & Jerk, finishing third. Canadian Maude Charron set a new Games Record with a combined lift of 231KG, claiming Gold while Australia’s Cochrane Sarah had a combined lift of 216KG to earn Silver.
Monday’s bronze medal is the fourth medal for Nigeria in the weightlifting event where the country had earlier won two Gold and another Bronze medal.
Nigerian weightlifters have been making the nation proud at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Four medals out of six events so far and it could get better with some more events coming up. All Nigeria’s medals so far have come from weightlifting.
Earlier today, Nigeria’s Edwin Peter competed in the Men’s 66kg elimination Round 16 Judo event. Peter did not advance to the quarterfinals, losing by Ippon ( when an opponent’s back is thrown to the mat with considerable force and speed) to Northern Ireland’s Nathon Burns.
In Boxing, Innocent Ehwarieme lost his Round 16 Light Heavyweight bout to England’s Aaron Bowen. The English boxer won the contest 5-0 (Win by points), and advanced to the quarterfinals
Nigeria’s Joy Eze missed a chance to challenge for a medal in the Women’s 71kg Weightlifting event, after not getting a mark in the Clean & Jerk. Eze was in 2nd place after the Snatch, lifting 100kg. However she did not lift all 3 attempts of 125kg in the Clean & Jerk.
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